- Fiction, English Love stories, Historical fiction, Fiction, romance, general
A wealthy English paleontologist marries a young Austrian Jewess to save her from the Nazis who have recently taken over Austria. This marriage of convenience turned out to not be so easy to sunder under English law, and what you'd expect happens (sorry).
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- Author
- Eva Ibbotson
- First published
- 1993
- Pages
- 362
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Press, Arrow, Puffin
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780099193814
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Eva Ibbotson (born Maria Charlotte Michelle Wiesner, 1925, Vienna, Austria) was a British novelist specializing in romance and children's fantasy. Eva Ibbotson was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1925. When Hitler came into power, Ibbotson's family moved to England. She attended Bedford College, graduating in 1945; Cambridge University from 1946-47; and the University of Durham, from which she graduated with a diploma in education in 1965. Ibbotson had intended to be a physiologist, but was put off by the amount of animal testing that she would have to do. Instead, she married and raised a family, returning to school to become a teacher in the 1960's. Ibbotson was widowed with three sons and a d
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